Developed by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan software is currently used to control the outbreak of Ebola.
The PIIKA software, an acronym for Integrated Platform for Intelligent Analysis Kinome, was created by Brett Trost, a graduate computer science program at the University, and his supervisor, Anthony Kusalik.
The software is now used by a national center for health research in Maryland to study how Ebola virus infects cells and how they fight infection.
Another graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, Jason Kindrachuk, currently working with PIIKA in the laboratory of Maryland. “The software itself has really facilitated the work of about 100 graduate students who are trying to analyze data and who can do it in seconds or minutes. ”
Jason Kindrachuk explains that this software will help to develop drugs to reverse the cellular changes caused by the Ebola virus.
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